Re: Microsoft is a bunch of crooks and imbeciles, burned my copy of xp
- From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:56:38 -0800
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:05:30 GMT, Jan Panteltje
<pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On a sunny day (Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:57:42 -0800) it happened John Larkin
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On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:44:48 GMT, Jan Panteltje
<pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Microsoft is a bunch of crooks and imbeciles, burned my copy of xp.
After spending a whole Saturday afternoon re-installing Xp, because it no
longer worked, losing all previously installed programs and drivers in the process,
because it would hang in install in some unknown place, had to start on a clean disk,
and finally got it working with internet access,
when I started it again today, a week or so later, it decided that my Logitech mouse
was a 'MS mouse', and the cursor jumped all over the screen.
Had enough.
I would like to hit Bill Gates and Balmer in the face for making such a crap product,.
I have burned my MS xp disk in front of the camera.
And replaced the partition by reiserfs, will be used for data storage in Linux.
Thank God for Linux and may penguins walk all over Redmond.
My Xp machines have been pretty good. Thay are all identical HP boxes
with hot-plug raid. I have a "master" hard drive with all my stuff
installed. If XP dies (happens maybe every year or so) I can plug in
the master and clone that, and restore files from a backup.
You are right, I should have made a mirror image of that partition, plenty of space...
well, actually I just got my new 1TB external HD full...
So I the extra space created by removing xp was welcome.
I did not use xp a lot, just to test some new gadgets I bought that only had xp drivers,
and some Sony video editing software, but that timed out (demo) anyways, and did not do
anything that I could not do in Linux faster...
It is the outrageous amount of time that xp stuff and it's problems takes...
You need recovery plans. All operating systems can die, and hard
drives can die, and all sorts of stuff can go wrong. A clean OS
install, with re-install of all appse and settings, can knock a week
out of your life.
I had a strange idea this morning, sure for MS the 'operating system' has become a purpose in itself,
while all it should be is a universal layer to isolate the applications from the hardware.
So MS makes it as impressive resource sucking as they can, but then I thought: Do we still need an OS in the future?
When you have multi cores, with many many cores, sure you can run one application on each core.
Your idea was that no?
Yes. When you have 1024 cores, with serious execution protection, the
OS can be very simple and provably correct, and no context switching
would be needed.
All you need then is some piping mechanism to pipe data (in the Unix way), from one core to the other.
Each core its own memory too.
Probably a modest local cache and some dedicated ram per core. All
processors would surround a shared cache to the big ram.
Vendors now also supply the drivers, some little program code to allow it it run on any platform would be nice.
Drivers should run in protected mode too. A bad driver should not be
allowed to trash anything.
Also I am contemplating writing a letter to the EU person responsible for suing MS, to ask if
we can demand hardware vendors to supply drivers for Linux too, if they sell in the EU.
But right, Microsoft products are garbage. Google
allchin dll dependencies
John
And on purpose, but the crime is in asking 98 Euro for a 20 cent copy.
Suppose you had to pay 100$ for each newspaper....
The audacity!
Yup.
John
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